On Monday, the Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Cristina Gallach summoned the Moroccan ambassador to Spain, Karima Benyaich.
This step came after the Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine El Ohmani's statements over Ceuta and Melilla.
Spain asked all its partners to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. Moreover, it urged the Moroccan side to express more explanations over the recent statements.
Earlier, El Othmani expressed during an interview with the Egyptian media that Morocco will address the issue of Ceuta and Melilla, to name them "Moroccan territories like the Sahara.”
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Furthermore, Pablo Casado, a Spanish leader of the opposition, requested the government’s action through Twitter to defend “national territorial integrity.”
It is worthy to mention that US President Donald Trump recognized Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara after a number of tensions were sparked between the Moroccan army and the Polisario last month.
the President of the Polisario Front issued a decree announcing the end of the commitment to the ceasefire signed between the Polisario Front and Morocco in 1991.
On 13 November, the “Polisario” Front said that “the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army launched intense attacks on Moroccan army bases in the Al Mahbas, Hawza and Awsard sectors. And Persian, resulting in losses.”
Therefore, Morocco announced that it had launched a military operation in the disputed buffer zone in Guerguerat in Western Sahara, to expel the Polisario militia from the region.
The Moroccan army confirmed that the crossing in the south of the kingdom has become fully secure, while the “Polisario” front responded, considering it that the operation ended the cease-fire between the two sides in place for 30 years, and that “the war has begun.”
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